If water leaks inside your refrigerator(and it WILL, at some point) you can fixit yourself. My 26 year old fridge was leakingand I fixed it completely. It is a Kenmoretop freezer, bottom refrigerator model.

In the good old models, one had to defrost thefridge every few months manually.

In the recent models, the fridge defrosts automatically,once or twice a day, and the water is supposed to draindown a long drain tube into a pan located at the bottom ofthe fridge. This collected water in the pan evaporatesby the heat under the fridge.

Now the drain tube can get clogged, by food debris and/orice. Thus when the water cannot drip through the drain tubethe water drips inside the fridge.

The drain tube is located behind the fridge, which is prettyeasy to take it out and clean. However usually the clog isnot in the long tube but in the connector assembly locatedin the backside of the fridge that leads to the long drain tube.

To get to the connector assemble, you need to unscrew andtake out the back panel of the freezer compartment. You wouldsee the evaporator coil and a tray under the coil where the wateris supposed to drip through. If you find the tray completely frozenwith ice, let it melt off. To speed up melting, you may blowhot air via a hair dryer. Once the ice is clear, you should seea drain hole in the middle of the tray. This could be clogged,which needs to be unclogged.

Next unscrew and open the thermostat control assembly locatedin the inside of the back of the refrigerator compartment just abovethe light bulb fixture. Once you take the take the cover off (you willalso have to take the knobs out) you will see a small tray cup about2" x 2" x 1/2" into which water from the top freezer compartmentdrain hole is supposed to drain. Pull out the tray cup, and if clogged,unclog it, clean it and put it back.

To check if the drain works ok, pour some water on the tray under the evaporator coil (top freezer compartment) and see if itimmediately drains into the tray located at the bottom of the fridgeat the floor level. If it does, you got it; and you can assemble thingsback in the reverse order you took the pieces apart.

Needless to say, use a vacuum cleaner with a long suction tube to cleanout all the collected mess under the fridge. No matter how good your housekeeping is, the bottom of the fridge will be full of dust.With lot of patience (I mean lots of it) you should be saving hundreds of dollars. If you still have problems e-mail me at walkhill@cox.net